South Africa at War, 1939-1945
Author | : Bill Nasson |
Publisher | : Jacana Media |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 1431403822 |
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Author | : Bill Nasson |
Publisher | : Jacana Media |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 1431403822 |
Author | : Henry James Martin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : South Africa |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ashley Jackson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Botswana |
ISBN | : 9780198207641 |
This is the first full study of an African country during the Second World War. Unusually, it provides both an Africanist and an imperial perspective. Using extensive archival and oral evidence, Ashley Jackson explores the social, economic, political, agricultural, and military history ofBotswana. He examines Botswana's military contribution to the war effort and the impact of the war on the African home front. The book focuses on events and personalities `on the ground' in Africa and also on their interaction with and impact upon events and personalities in distant imperialcentres, such as Whitehall and the wartime British Army headquarters in the Middle East. The attitudes, aims, and actions of all levels of colonial society - British rulers, African chiefs, military officials, ordinary African men and women - are considered, producing a `total history' of an Africancountry at war.
Author | : Jennifer Crwys-Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United Party (South Africa) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : South Africa |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Evert Kleynhans |
Publisher | : Jonathan Ball Publishers |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2021-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1776190211 |
The story of the intelligence war in South Africa during the Second World War is one of suspense, drama and dogged persistence. In 1939, when the Union of South Africa entered the war on Britain's side, the German government secretly reached out to the political opposition, and to the leadership of the anti-war movement, the Ossewabrandwag. The Nazis' aim was to spread sedition in South Africa and to undermine the Allied war effort. The critical strategic importance of the sea route round the Cape of Good Hope meant that the Germans were also after naval intelligence. Soon U-boat packs were sent to operate in South African waters, to deadly effect. With the help of the Ossewabrandwag, a network of German spies was established to gather important political and military intelligence and relay it back to the Reich. Agents would use a variety of channels to send coded messages to Axis diplomats in neighbouring Mozambique. Meanwhile, police detectives and MI5 agents hunted in vain for illegal wireless transmitters. Hitler's Spies presents an unrivalled account of the German intelligence networks that operated in wartime South Africa. It also details the hunt in post-war Europe for witnesses to help the government bring charges of high treason against key Ossewabrandwag members.
Author | : Peter Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Industrial relations |
ISBN | : |
Author | : South Africa. Suid-Afrikaanse Spoorweë en Hawens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ian van der Waag |
Publisher | : African Sun Media |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 192848090X |
The Second World War involved most of the countries of the world and left so many millions dead and maimed, disorganised and devastated through personal and communal loss. This book recovers some of South Africa’s soldiers’ experiences from the physical and mental debris of the war. Individuals are important; their lives – used as lenses – give us colour and texture, and their voices tell the stories of ordinary soldiers. Using their memoirs and diaries, the vitality of their endeavours is reasserted, their successes and failures, victories and indecencies are re-examined, and their magnanimity and the general triumph of the human spirit are celebrated.
Author | : Suryakanthie Chetty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : |